How to Manage Your Stress
Presenter:
Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Time:
1:41:40
Summary
Dr Robert Sapolsky is a Professor at Stanford University, a world-leading researcher, and an author. Stress is an inevitable part of human life. But what is stress actually doing to the human body when it happens for such a prolonged period of time? And what does science say are the best interventions to defeat it?
Transcript
What do you wish more people knew about how stress impacts the human body, that while it's worth paying attention to the fact that it does crummy things to your heart and blood pressure and bladder and everything else. For me, most meaningful thing is it does crummy things to your brain. The worst is that it makes you less empathic. It makes you less tolerant, it makes you less willing to take somebody else's perspective. It narrows your tunnel of concerns. And I think what we see is in a world full of stress, people are crummier to each other on the average.
Why does stress cause that reduction in empathy?